Pellolessertia is a monotypic genus of African jumping spiders containing the single species, Pellolessertia castanea. It was first described in 1927,[2] and is only found in Africa.[1] Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué gave the distribution range as Zad're to Ethiopia.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Pellolessertia Strand, 1929[1] |
| Species: | P. castanea
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| Binomial name | |
| Pellolessertia castanea (Lessert, 1927)
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The name is a combination of the salticid genus Pellenes, due to its resemblance it and several other genera in the subfamily Pelleninae, and the arachnologist Lessert.[4] It was first discovered in Avakubi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and given the name Avakubia. In 1929, the name was changed to "Pellolessertia" because its previous name was already being used for a gastropod subgenus in Streptaxidae.
References
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pellolessertia Strand, 1929". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- ^ Lessert, R. de (1927). "Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 34: 442. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.117612.
- ^ Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S.; Jocqué, R. (1997). African Spiders: An Identification Manual. pp. 1–392.
- ^ Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.
External links
edit- Szűts, T.; Scharff, N. (2005). "Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae) from West Africa" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Hungarica. 51 (4): 357–378. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-07-20.
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